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Maria Lourdes

Navarro Tiquia

Founder | General Manager of

PUBLiCUS Asia Inc.

ARIA LOURDES NAVARRO TIQUIA is a noted lobbyist and
political strategist in the Philippines and in asia. She is a trained
M d experienced political management expert and a policy analyst,
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hence combining politics and policy in her 25 years of professional career.
She has gained such training and experience moving from the public sector
to non-government then to the academe and the private sector. She brought her
15 years of public sector experience into what she does best today – as Founder/
general Manager of PUBLiCUS asia Inc.

Malou served in the Philippine government for 15 years covering the
Executive and Legislative branches. Her first government stint was in the
Environmental Management Bureau in 1985. When the Philippine Congress
was reconvened in 1987, she joined the technical staff of human rights lawyer,
Sen. rene Saguisag. She was later invited to join the Office of the President in
1990 under the Cory aquino administration to implement the Organic act in
Muslim Mindanao.

In 1991 she was awarded the U.S. Congressional Fellowship of The asia
Foundation. She worked in the 100th U.S. Congress under the Subcommittee
on the Environment of the Science, Space and Technology Committee chaired
by New York Democrat, James Scheuer. She handled policy work on Climate
Change. She later joined the Office of Sen. John Seymour, a republican from
the State of California where she did research, program and policy review on the
United States resource Conservation and recovery act (rCra) and its proposed
amendments as well as on the designation of sole source aquifers on Native
american reservations pursuant the Safe and Drinking Water act and rCra.

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